Lets get started! I bought Sanger’s Vac “kit”…but God makes it a Kit!! As far as you can see this is a piece of plastic…nothing more. I will use the two fuselage halves. Everything else are gonna stay in the dark.

I cut the two halves, sanding for days. As soon as this procedure was finished…I marked the areas that I going to open or rebuild them (in red color) according to 1/48 Whitley’s plans.

Surgery!!!!

I used evergreen sticks (L) in order of making the lips for connecting the two halves later. The Vac's plastic thickness is like a paper!!!

The most painful work, concerns the small windows on fuselage.

Yes… I know I’m late. But I had to build a huge number of sections and join them together. This step was the most important of the whole build. Too many dry fits, too many resets in order to achieve the correct fitting according to Whitley’s technical plans. At first I had to build the cockpit floor, Main fuselage’s floors and then all the bulkheads.

The most difficult part of this build, were the bomb-bays cells. The main structure built was next. The cockpit floor, the rear fuselage’s floor, the bulkheads, radio-operator’s little cabin, and all the major components from nose to tail!

As soon as this boring part was finished we stepped forward to its final dry fit, checking gaps etc. Everything is good enough and we proceeded directly to its primer. I used Primer for car’s plastic parts.

At this point I would like to say that I didnt pay attention on the LEFT rear fuselage side during attaching the frames of its structure. Its a blind part... Mostly I did a rough work in order to strengthen the left side as well as the right one.

The most boring part and dangerous part of such a build is now finished. We shall continue next with the interesting making of all the interior’s items such as seats, instrument panel, devices etc. Thank U for your attention. I would be grateful to you, If you post any objections so far, concerning the technical accuracy of all these. I can fix them if its possible…

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Man you are a sadist! But I am getting the hint that this gonna be another wonder ofr 2011?By the way how did you go in the IPMS Nationals ...PS. Sorry abot what happened to Helmo, hope things are better and settled now ...

iCocker wrote:Man you are a sadist! But I am getting the hint that this gonna be another wonder ofr 2011?By the way how did you go in the IPMS Nationals ...PS. Sorry abot what happened to Helmo, hope things are better and settled now ...

All the best buddy!

Ivan

Hi Ivan, Yes.. I'm gonna try for something better than my Lanc. I'm not so sure if Whitley will be finished during 2011...

I do not participate in our IPMS Hellas shows... I'm out. We do not agree with the way of thinking about our hobby and the new standards been set through the past years in market. The old IPMS guard, and many people who believe that model making is still an ability and agility and not a simple assembly paying more and more for aftermarket items in order to improve and make a good model, belong to HELMO. That's why I'm a member in Maltese IPMS...because we have the same principles in our hobby.

For example..The new IPMS (the past 10 years), believes that there is no any difference between scratch build work and aftermarket improvements during in their contests. Who ever is better gets the prize!! Actually that was the main argue with us. We couldn't agree with this principle because it was a matter of money... Who ever has enough money to spend for building a model..the better prize for him.

HELMO contest is separated in two basic categories. a) Models been improved with after-market itemsb) Models been improved with scratch-built work

Our best prizes (Golden stars) which concern the ability and accuracy in handmade work are for models worked without the use of aftermarket items (like Brian's Me-110 for example)

That's all Ray. We still respect IPMS HELLAS, we still believe at her great work, we admire her history. But we can not follow her course.

There goes the master again, wow man, this is yet another stunning example of great modeling. What else can i say, i love what you are doing, the interior is amazing, keep this up you crazy great guy!!!

Simply out of this world Alex, I have never seen such precise and detailed work, and also an impeccable painting and weathering, PROSIT Mate! But admit Alex you made a model of a large Euro Cent instead!